Mark Jones, CEO of Alecto Mining, explains to Leon Louw the reasons behind the company’s decision to change strategy from being an exploration company focusing on West Africa to becoming a development company in southern Africa.

It’s been a busy couple of months for Brad Gordon, chief executive of Acacia Mining. Earlier this month the gold miner’s shares tumbled after its host country Tanzania slapped an export ban on some of its products. Shortly before that, it announced the discovery of a major new gold deposit in western Kenya. And in January, it emerged that Acacia was in merger talks with Toronto-listed peer Endeavour Mining.